I'm not sure that the assumption that CLIs are only for power users or technical users is entirely justified. That's certainly been the assumption for the last 25 years or so, but even back then our group was able to create command line interfaces that were able to understand more than 3/4 of the untrained utterances of non-computer users in a system that intentionally offered no help. (see http://www.recordare.com/good/chi83.html ) Adding help and immediate feedback the way that Ubiquity does should be able to get that figure much much higher.
The main thing that makes CLI's hard to use has been the expectation that they are hard to use or are only for experts. This project seems very promising to me. On the other hand, using typing may not be as appropriate in an iPhone world, but Aza carefully talks about the interface as "language based" and doesn't explicitly focus on typing. Language can, after all be oral as well as written. I look forward to watching this evolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32394 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
